Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is exactly what it sounds like. It's the city where they first started making grappa, which is also known as "poor man's vodka". The word grappa actually comes from the mountain that the city is named after..Grappa and hence came the name of the city and the alcohol. The city is interesting despite it's famous name. It was involved in WWII, and has a street name "Via delle Martieri" or the street of the martyrs. This is where 33 Italians were hung between 1945 and 1946 when they created a resistance group against the Nazis. This is also the city where Ernest Hemingway was and where he based his "Farewell to Arms," so it was cool when I was able to recall the book and actually put a picture to what he wrote about. I'd really like to visit it again when it snows, because there are mountains and a covered bridge over a pretty river and I want to see it snow covered.
The picture at the top is of the street dedicated to the 33 martyrs, the bottles are bottles of grappa, the the bottom picture is of the view of the city and its bridge.